A Conversation for The h2g2 Word of the Day (Discontinued)
Aasvogel - Zymurgy
Kandyman Started conversation Jul 25, 2000
Aasvogel (n) - Any of several large South African vultures
Babbit (n) - Soft alloy of tin, copper and antimony used for machine bearings
Cerumen (n) - Yellow waxy secretion in the external canal of the ear
Defenestrate (v) - To throw a person out of a window
Eldritch (n, Scottish) - Wierd, hideous
Finagle (v) - Use, get by trickery, wangle
Gaby (n) - Simpleton
Hispid (adj) - Shaggy, bristly
Infrangible (adj) - Unbreakable, inviolable
Juggins (n, slang) - Simpleton
Keck (v) - Make sound as if about to vomit
Laystall (n) - Rubbish heap
Mountebank (n) - Itinerant quack, impudent charlatan
Niminy-piminy (adj) - Mincing, prim
Olid (adj) - Rank smelling, fetid
Pettitoes (n pl) - Pigs trotters
Quean (n) - Impudent or ill behaved girl, hussy
Rugose (adj) - Wrinkled, corrugated
Scrimshank (v) - Shirk duty
Tintinnabulation (n) - Ringing or tinkling of bells
Ursine (adj) - Of, like a bear
Vacuous (adj) - Empty, void, unintelligent
Wigging (n) - Severe rebuke, scolding
Xiphoid (adj) - Sword shaped
Yett (n, Scottish) - Gate or portcullis with interlocking bands
Zymurgy (n) - Branch of applied chemistry dealing with the science of wine-making, brewing and distilling
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